BARS AND PENS: The Biography of a Prison Writer

Using the conventions of biography, memoir, interviews, and screenplays, Bars and Pens: The Biography of a Prison Writer, tells the true story of Peter Madden and his courageous journey from long-term prison inmate to published writer.

It is with the idea of making one last break from prison that Madden taught himself to write – about his experience on the treadmill of incarceration and of the demons possessing his fellow prisoners.

The portraits Madden created of himself and his compatriots...